Aristophanes : Myth, Ritual and Comedy

Name: Aristophanes
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521440127
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521440127

by A. M. Bowie

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0521440122

ISBN-13 9780521440127

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 30th, 1993

Print length 348 Pages

Weight 666 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.50 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: Ancient (Classical) Greek Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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This book examines the plays of the Greek comic writer Aristophanes and attempts to reconstruct the responses of the original audiences by using anthropological techniques to compare the plays with those Greek myths and rituals which share similar story-patterns or subject-matter.

This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.

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